WE’VE been waiting a couple of years for bar entrepreneur Joe Fearnhead to open the Quick Brown Fox, in an old bank building on the corner of Oldham Street and Swan Street. This third venue after NQ’s Kosmonaut and PLY is still pending; meanwhile Joe’s Alphabet Brewing Company has surprised us all by expanded beyond its ABC taproom in a North Western Street arch and into custom-built premises in Chorlton.
The newly opened Alphabet Bar is at 127 Manchester Road on the site of De Nada and then the short-lived Keg & Cask (not to be confused with the lovely Cask & Kiln on Wilbraham Road). You can’t really miss it with its bright green facade.
Fearnhead said of the project: "We have six Alphabet beers on keg, one on cask, and one guest line. Making regular appearances will be our core beers: A to the K, a 5.6% American pale ale; Charlie Don’t Surf, a 4% session IPA, and Flat White, a 7.4% White breakfast stout. The beers will come fresh from the brewery and we will sell cans at a decent price to take home."
Alphabet Beer Tap, 127 Manchester Road, Manchester, M21 9PG.
